Resources

  1. Opportunities for Students and Early Career Researchers: Internships, Fellowships, and Jobs

    1. Scholarships, Fellowships, and Internships for undergraduates, graduates, and postdocs (by Ernie Lewis from Brookhaven National Laboratory)? https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/vcbbexoqymnv9iapqugia/ADlLkLsehCxhNkOA6lk3qgA?dl=0&e=1&preview=README+-+Resources+for+early-career+scientists+2024-06-19.pdf&rlkey=uq3i2sixg4bq8cguf4qwlffq0

    2. How to find an environmental science postdoc (by Lily Dove and Clare Singer): https://docs.google.com/document/d/13fKYtOUZ7njCla7BroWn1yCCfj1ZHePvMhnSVy9Xba0/edit
    3. Job lists and jobs
      1. Earth Sciences Job email list: https://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/es_jobs_net
      2. AMS lists jobs at https://careercenter.ametsoc.org/home and https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/education-careers/careers/jobs-and-internships/
      3. AGU has a list of job lists at https://connect.agu.org/atmosphericsciences/as-resources/atmospheric-sciences-resources#jobs

 

  1. Community Websites Relevant to Middle Atmosphere

    1. APARC: https://www.sparc-climate.org

    2. UCAR: https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/sections/utls/meetings

    3. Atmospedia: https://atmospedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
    4. AGU AS Early-career seminars: https://connect.agu.org/atmosphericsciences/as-resources/webinars
    5. Graduate Climate Conference: https://pcc.uw.edu/events/graduate-climate-conference/
    6. NSF SOARS: https://soars.ucar.edu/
    7. NASA SARP: https://baeri.org/sarp/
    8. GeoMIP: https://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/GeoMIP/index.html

 

  1. Useful Tools for Middle Atmosphere Research

    1. NASA Worldview: https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/

    2. NASA visualizations about stratospheric ozone: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/OzoneHole.html
    3. Climate Reanalyzer: https://climatereanalyzer.org/
    4. NASA Ozone Watch: https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/
    5. StratObserve: https://stratobserve.com/
    6. KIT QBO timeseries (continuation of FUB timeseries): https://www.atmohub.kit.edu/english/807.php

 

  1. Classic Textbooks on Middle Atmosphere Research

    1. "Aeronomy of the Middle Atmosphere: Chemistry and Physics of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere" by Guy P. Brasseur and Susan Solomon

This book provides an in-depth look at the chemical and physical processes in the stratosphere and mesosphere.

    1. “Middle Atmosphere Dynamics” by Conway B. Leovy, David G. Andrews and James R. Holton.

 

  1. Recent Review Articles on Middle Atmosphere Research

  1. Martin, Z., S.-W. Son, A.H. Butler, H. Hendon, H. Kim, A. Sobel, S. Yoden, and C. Zhang, The influence of the quasi-biennial oscillation on the Madden-Julian Oscillation, Nature Review Earth and Environment, 2, 477-489, 2021, doi:10.1038/s43017-021-00173-9.

  2. Baldwin, M.P., B. Ayarzaguena, T. Birner, N. Butchart, A.H. Butler, A.J. Charlton-Perez, D.I.V. Domeisen, C.I. Garfinkel, H. Garny, E.P. Gerber, M.I. Hegglin, U. Langematz, and N.M. Pedatella, Sudden stratospheric warmings, Reviews of Geophysics, 59, e2020RG000708, 2021. doi:10.1029/2020RG000708 Related AGU EOS summary: https://eos.org/editors-vox/global-effects-of-disruptions-to-the-stratospheric-circulation
  3. Domeisen, D.I.V., C.I. Garfinkel, and A.H. Butler, The teleconnection of El Niño-Southern Oscillation to the Stratosphere, Reviews of Geophysics, 57, doi:10.1029/2018RG000596, 2019. Related AGU EOS summary: https://eos.org/editors-vox/global-impacts-of-ensos-reach-into-the-stratosphere
  4. Waugh, Darryn, and Timothy Hall. "Age of stratospheric air: Theory, observations, and models." Reviews of Geophysics 40, no. 4 (2002): 1010 doi:10.1029/2000RG000101.
  5. Baldwin, Mark P., L. J. Gray, T. J. Dunkerton, K. Hamilton, P. H. Haynes, W. J. Randel, J. R. Holton et al. "The quasi?biennial oscillation." Reviews of Geophysics 39, no. 2 (2001): 179-229. doi:10.1029/1999RG000073
  6. Haynes, P., P. Hitchcock, M. Hitchman, S. Yoden, H. Hendon, G. Kiladis, K. Kodera, and I. Simpson, 2021: The influence of the stratosphere on the tropical troposphere. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 99, 803–845, doi:10.2151/ jmsj.2021-040.
  7. Butchart, N.: The stratosphere: a review of the dynamics and variability, Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 1237–1272, doi:10.5194/wcd-3-1237-2022, 2022
  8. Holton, J. R., P. H. Haynes, M. E. McIntyre, A. R. Douglass, R. B. Rood, and L. Pfister (1995), Stratosphere-troposphere exchange, Rev. Geophys., 33(4), 403–439, doi:10.1029/95RG02097.
  9. Fritts, D. C., and M. J. Alexander (2003), Gravity wave dynamics and effects in the middle atmosphere, Rev. Geophys., 41(1), 1003, doi:10.1029/2001RG000106.